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Municipal Infrastructure & Services

17th August 2018
Integrated infrastructure delivery company Aecom’s Nairobi team, consisting of experts from South Africa, Kenya, Germany and the US, is working on a civil-structure assessment project for a transmission line in Kenya. “A major advantage for Aecom in the region is its ability to leverage its... →

By: Donald Makhafola17th August 2018
Bituminous binders and slurries for road-surfacing specialist manufacturer and applicator Colas South Africa completed 700 000 m² of road reseal for Mogale City local municipality, including several roads in the Krugersdorp Nature Reserve, over the past three years. For the project, which... →

ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY The Colas South Africa team applying Colmat L microsurfacing in the Krugersdorp Nature Reserve

By: Donald Makhafola17th August 2018
With business spend in Africa predicted to grow from $2.6-trillion in 2015 to $3.5-trillion by 2025, wholly black-owned construction group Concor Construction believes that this trend will redefine urban areas and cities, triggering the need for rapid infrastructure development and services.... →

COLLABORATION Concor Construction wants to work with governments and municipalities to meet their mandates for infrastructure delivery

By: Donald Makhafola17th August 2018
With increasing urbanisation and technological advancement in African countries, the need for more robust and sophisticated infrastructure to support and sustain this growth is essential, says global engineering consultancy firm SRK Consulting partner and principal civil engineer James Morris.... →

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URBANISATION There is a need for robust and sophisticated infrastructure to support and sustain increasing urbanisation in Africa

17th August 2018
Global optimised resource management company Veolia Water Technologies South Africa recently handed over the 55 Mℓ/d potable water treatment plant to State-owned water utility Umgeni Water in the iLembe district municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. The project was part of the Lower Thukela Bulk Water... →

RELIABLE SUPPLY
The 55 Mℓ/d potable water treatment plant in the iLembe District has been handed over to Umgeni Water

By: Donald Makhafola17th August 2018
There is investor appetite for well-structured infrastructure projects on the continent, but investors need clarity from governments on regulations and the various projects earmarked for development, says specialist banking company Investec Bank head of power and infrastructure finance... →

By: Donald Makhafola17th August 2018
Amid basic service delivery challenges, such as housing, water, transport infrastructure and energy, there is a desperate need for engineers in the country, says association for consulting engineering firms Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) president Neresh Pather. He says efforts should... →

NERESH PATHER AND CHRIS CAMPBELL Consulting Engineers South Africa is encouraging partnerships among its member companies, in the form of joint ventures, to benefit in respect of growth and skills transfer

18th August 2017
Localisation in infrastructure development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region is critical to industrialisation, says the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). →

NIGEL GWYNNE-EVANS
State-owned entities have a critical role to play in attractive private sector investment for infrastructure projects

By: Marleny Arnoldi18th August 2017
In the commercial and industrial property development space, as well as its supporting infrastructure, there is demand for high-quality, diverse assets with strategic locations and offering optimal planning and design, says consultancy firm WSP. →

WSP property team and structures regional director William Johnston discusses the demand for diverse assets in the infrastructure industry.

By: Marleny Arnoldi18th August 2017
With the Amended Construction Sector Code (CSC) in its final stages, business strategy consultancy Gestalt says that the CSC will provide revised specifications in terms of the black economic empowerment (BEE) requirements in the sector. The sector codes continue to advance the transformation... →

By: Marleny Arnoldi18th August 2017
The National Treasury’s (NT’s) standard for infrastructure procurement and delivery management aimed at addressing government’s use of “cheap” professional service providers in public infrastructure projects officially became applicable to municipalities last month. →

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INCLUSIVE DECISION-MAKING
Government bodies in their respective procurement departments, should make more of a crossfunctional team effort regarding procurement

By: Marleny Arnoldi18th August 2017
With 70% of the R370-million Cornubia Interchange project complete, construction design and engineering services provider Royal HaskoningDHV and the eThekwini roads provision department say the project is likely to be completed in January next year. →

PILING UP Royal HaskoningDHV construction project manager Drew Wilson says the biggest challenge has been piling and the foundation of the structure

10th June 2016
Africa is urbanising at a rapid pace, which means infrastructure such as bypasses, bridges, new highways and new technologies needs to be deployed in congested areas where traditional methods cannot work, notes Africa-focused consultancy Africa House director Duncan Bonnett. →

By: Robyn Wilkinson10th June 2016
Infrastructure construction specialist Inyatsi Construction Group Holdings chairperson Frans Pienaar says a willingness from government to transfer the responsibility for the implementation of infrastructure projects to the private sector will help to drive growth in the industry. →

By: Zandile Mavuso10th June 2016
South Africa is facing demand for economic growth; it is therefore critical that government considers collaborating with the private sector in primary infrastructure megaprojects that will yield almost immediate gross domestic product growth, says professional services firm WSP∣Parsons... →

By: Dylan Slater12th June 2015
The Ministry for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) voiced its proposal last month that the government-initiated Back to Basics (B2B) programme be geared to assist local municipalities in various ways. →

MITIGATING MUNICIPAL BACKLOGS
Under the ambit of the Back-to-Basics programme, government aims to improve municipal procurement and infrastructure delivery, among other competency requirements

By: Dylan Slater12th June 2015
The installation of smart water meters in Jansenville, in the Eastern Cape, has contributed significantly to a reduction in water leaks and to the municipality’s accurate capturing of water-meter readings, says Johannesburg-based metering solutions company Elster Kent Metering. →

DETERRING THEFT
The smart water meters have no metal components, thereby mitigating theft for metal recycling

By: Mia Breytenbach13th June 2014
Multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Bigen Africa reports that the Second Creek integrated development project in the Buffalo City metropolitan municipality, in East London, which it is involved in, has won the Govan Mbeki Housing Award. The project is the company’s second integrated... →

LUFHERENG INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT
Bigen Africa will service the housing stands with municipal infrastructure and construct the housing units

By: Mia Breytenbach13th June 2014
Multi-disciplinary engineering consulting firm GIBB has compiled a business plan, aimed at identifying challenges that exist at the multi-purpose Thusong Centres, in the Eastern Cape, to support the effective functioning of the centres. GIBB has been tasked by the Eastern Cape Transport... →

BUSINESS PLAN
Service level agreements will ensure services at the Tombo Thusong Centre

By: Mia Breytenbach13th June 2014
To enhance and monitor the quality of municipal infrastructure and services, engineers should head the various departments of South Africa’s municipalities as they have the necessary skills and expertise to understand the engineering aspects of the services in question, voluntary association... →

By: Mia Breytenbach13th June 2014
Roads infrastructure management agency Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) plans to complete the repairs of nine rain-damaged bridges in Johannesburg as soon as possible to continue with its key focus of restoring the asset value of roads infrastructure in the City of Johannesburg, in line with its... →

By: Mia Breytenbach13th June 2014
Municipal water and sanitation services eThekwini Water and Sanitation (EWS) says construction of the Northern Aqueduct Augmentation, which forms part of the eThekwini strategic master plan to deal with the increasing demand for water in the northern regions of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal, is still... →

WATER WAY
The R150-million first phase of the Northern Aqueduct project is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2015

By: Mia Breytenbach13th June 2014
The estimated R140-million upgrades to Mogale City local municipality’s Condale substation, in Gauteng, are on track and due for completion in early 2015, consulting engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV says. The Condale substation, which is the only main infeed substation for the entire Mogale... →

NECCESARY UPGRADE
Upgrades to the Mogale City Condale substation will ensure stable electricity supply capacity for the community

By: Idéle Esterhuizen29th July 2011
Social housing serves as a valuable tool in restructuring urban areas and creating a socially and economically integrated society, says Centre for Municipal Research and Advice (CMRA) human settlements project manager and advisor to South African Local Government Association (Salga) Michelle Essink. →

29th July 2011
Construction materials manufacturer Corobrik says it has secured orders for more than 40-million CoroJem face bricks, which will be used in the construction of more than 11 000 affordable homes in the Free State and Northern Cape provinces. →

30th July 2010
Infrastructure engineering and project management company Stemele Bosch Africa (SBA), part of B & A Group, has been commissioned by the eThekwini municipality, in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), to design water and sewerage connections to containerised ablution blocks. This is part of a R450-million... →

By: Natasha Odendaal30th July 2010
Construction giant Basil Read’s developments division is moving ahead with a series of initiatives that are aimed at reducing its carbon footprint; a vision which has come to life at the division’s site office in Cosmo City, in the north-west of Johannesburg, where a 1 105-ha mixed-use,... →

30th July 2010
Specialist in managing and maintaining municipal facilities Munitech is working on a three-year programme with the eThekwini municipality, in KwaZulu-Natal, on a comprehensive nonrevenue water- (NRW-) reduction programme to be implemented in South Africa. →

30th July 2010
The North West province Department of Human Settlements reports that the province has undertaken a project to construct 1 956 houses by the end of August, as part of the National Women Build project that commemorates the women’s march of 1956 to the Union Buildings, in Pretoria, in protest of the... →